amcap is a video capture application that is included with the osprey package. it is useful for testing the installation, for general purpose viewing of video, and for capturing video to file. amcap differs from the other general purpose capture application, vidcap32, that is included with the osprey package in that:

    1 amcap can handle captured file sizes that exceed the 2 gb limit that vidcap32 has.

    2 amcap is written using the directshow api, and vidcap32 is written using the vfw api. another application that uses directshow is windows media encoder.

    3 amcap does not support software compression modules.

    4 amcap's preview mode is equivalent to vidcap32's overlay mode. amcap does not have an equivalent to vidcap32's preview mode.

    amcap requires the directx media runtime version 6.0 or later in order to run. this runtime is included on this cd, and can be installed by the osprey installation program. more information about directx media is available at directx media details.

    the following instructions take you through the basic scenarios for using this applet.amcap has additional capabilities and settings that are beyond the scope of a brief introduction. they are described in the applet’s online help.

    selecting the amcap device

    amcap preview

    configuring the video capture driver in amcap

    setting the capture file - preallocating and defragmenting

    capturing video

    playback

    directx media details